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Bishops scrap welcome to gays

Vatican City (AP) – Catholic bishops scrapped their landmark welcome to gays Saturday, showing deep divisions at the end of a two-week meeting sought by Pope Francis to chart a more merciful approach...

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Gay Catholics get Vatican welcome, but no papal shout-out

Vatican City (AP) – The Vatican did something it has never done before by giving a group of U.S. gay and lesbian Catholics VIP seats at Pope Francis’ weekly general audience Feb. 18. But in a sign that...

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Cardinal McCarrick scandal inflames debate over gay priests

NEW YORK (AP)| Allegations that disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick engaged in sex with adult seminarians have inflamed a long-running debate about the presence of gay men in the Roman Catholic...

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LGBTI activists urge Vatican to condemn homosexuality criminalization laws

A group of more than 50 LGBTI rights advocates met April 5 with a high-ranking Vatican official and renewed their calls for the Catholic Church to condemn laws that criminalize consensual same-sex...

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Pope compares politicians who use anti-LGBTQ hate speech to Hitler

ABOVE: Pope Francis, photo by Zebra48bo via Wikimedia Commons. Pope Francis on Friday compared politicians who use hate speech against LGBTQ people and other minority groups to Adolf Hitler. “It is not...

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Vatican says Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions

ABOVE: St. Peter’s Basilica (Photo public domain) The Vatican on Monday said the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which defends Catholic...

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LGBTQ Catholics stung by Vatican rebuff of same-sex unions

Pope Francis. (Photo by Casa Rosada (Argentina Presidency of the Nation), from Wikimedia Commons) This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. The...

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Hundreds of US Catholic leaders endorse LGBTQ protections

ABOVE: A New Ways Ministry symposium in 2017. Photo via New Ways Ministry’s Facebook page. More than 250 Catholic leaders in the U.S. have endorsed efforts to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination....

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U.S. Catholic theologians call for LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections

ABOVE: A New Ways Ministry symposium in 2017. Photo via New Ways Ministry’s Facebook page. More than 750 of the nation’s leading Catholic theologians, church leaders, scholars, educators, and writers...

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Vatican official speaks at online LGBTQ event

Sister Nathalie Becquart. (Screenshot courtesy New Ways Ministry) In what organizers say was a first-of-its-kind appearance, a nun who serves as the Undersecretary of the Vatican’s Synod of Bishops in...

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LGBTQ-supportive US bishop named by Pope as a cardinal

Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego. (Photo from sdcatholic.org) Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, one of Pope Francis’ ideological allies who has often sparred with more conservative U.S. bishops,...

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LGBTQ students wrestle with tensions at Christian colleges

ABOVE: QPLUS supporters on Trans Day of Visibility 2021. Photo via QPLUS’ Facebook page. COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. (AP) | As monks chanted prayers in Saint John’s University church, members of the student...

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